User:Hillgentleman/Wikiversity learning model

Please feel free to comment. Hillgentleman|Talk 01:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

The learning project wikiversity learning model has been started. I have not followed most of it. So I gather some of my thoughs here.

We know:
 * There is a lot of information on-line and on-paper. The problem for a student is to learn the information, that is to digest it, understand it, and make it part of her own.
 * Traditionally this is done in the classroom, at home, in the lab, with paper, experiments, blackboard, oral discussions, etc
 * Traditional learning is all very good, but
 * 1. it is exclusive! (you must be there physically with the teacher)
 * 2. it is limited (if you are stuck, you have only a few places to seek help)
 * Wikiversity is to provide anybody, who is interested in anything, an alternative avenue for the learning process.
 * 1. Wikiversity is to open up the learning process.
 * 2. If we can do that, Wikiversity want to do more: to let everybody contribute, and show the best to everybody.

Now the question is: in what way is the wiki-community, with the mediawiki engine, and its supplements (robots,irc,skype,msn,radios,videos,etc) going achieve that?

That is, how can wiki-community with the help of all the wiki-technology, help a student learn (original or not), ie
 * ask the right questions
 * gather the relevant information and rearrange them to her liking
 * digest the information
 * understand the information -> create knowledge
 * use the newly gained knowledge to solve problems, to generate more knowledge, and to generate more questions

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